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> The basic idea is that before agreeing to a request, the principal or their agent should know (a) what machine is asking, (b) what remote machine they want to connect to, and (c) what command line they want to run on the principal's behalf. And the principal's authorization should then be limited to that context.

Holy snap this is exactly the reason that I've gone to great lengths to disable SSH Agents and askpass. Asking for a password without any context whatsoever of exactly which process is wanting it is a nightmare



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